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Given the chance, Arthenia Joyner would have ordered a bacon and egg sandwich with a glass of orange juice. Instead, workers inside an F.W. Woolworth store in Tampa, Fla., declared their lunch counter closed to her and other high school students 65 years ago.The students refused to leave without being served. The protests did not carry the national prominence of the Greensboro sit-ins, Montgomery boycotts or Selma marches. “What I found out is damn near nobody knows what happened,” Joyner, 82, said recently. But the acts of resistance produced results. Within months, Tampa’s counters were desegregated. Other public areas like…

A group of anti-Israel student protesters at Columbia University on Saturday criticized the Trump administration’s decision to rescind more than $400 million in federal grants to the university over its alleged failure to address antisemitism on campus during demonstrations held in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel.The student group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, responded on social media Saturday night for the first time since the announcement of the administration’s decision, which the group slammed as a “transparent scare tactic.””The Trump administration’s announcement that it plans to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia…

Stephen Curry became the 26th player in NBA history to score 25,000 career points, reaching the milestone in the third quarter of the Golden State Warriors’ 115-110 victory over the Detroit Pistons.”BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!” Curry yelled while running back through the hallway to the locker room following a quick return to the court after the game.And that was actually a tribute to teammate Draymond Green, who loves to yell “boom” after making a three-pointer and hit the go-ahead three with 35 seconds left.Green secured the game ball for Curry – but Curry said Green would keep it.”He’s going to keep…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Mining myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The world’s biggest mining groups have cut back spending on exploration in the past two years as inflation, higher interest rates and lower commodity prices have stalled the market.That has come in spite of a flurry of spending this decade on the search for copper and lithium, metals crucial for the energy transition. Total exploration spending fell for the second consecutive year in 2024, sliding 6 per cent to $12.5bn, after rising in the years following the pandemic, according to S&P Capital IQ.…

Fund boutique Ruffer has always prided itself on making investments that go against the herd, boldly marketing its approach as “deliberately different”. But its contrarian stance has left the investment house delivering such poor returns over the past two years that even cash has performed better.At the heart of Ruffer’s thesis was the conviction that the all mighty US stock market was braced for a crash.That call — one which is still at odds with the view of 70 per cent of fund managers in Bank of America’s latest survey — has proved wrong. The US dodged a recession despite…

Dear readers,I’m not going to get into the various reasons you might have for wanting to go somewhere else right now — somewhere, let’s say, on the other side of an international border. The fact is that Americans have always been eager tourists and willing expatriates, game to study the histories and decode the customs of neighboring and far-flung places.There are more and less benign versions of this roving impulse, but let’s not get into that either. Also, with due respect to hard-typing globetrotters, travel writing exhausts me. What I’m in the mood for is a scrappy, burrowing cosmopolitanism, books…

Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa Hackman’s causes of death were revealed by Sante Fe, New Mexico officials on Friday, but Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed the investigation into the case remains ongoing.At a press conference held more than a week after the couple’s bodies were discovered in their home on Feb. 26, Chief Medical Investigator Dr. Heather Jarrell announced that Gene’s cause of death was hypertensive atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer’s disease as a significant contributing factor. She confirmed that Betsy died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a disease transmitted from animals to humans that is commonly found in rodents.Jarrell…

In a sign that President Trump is following the Biden administration’s lead in reining in Google, the Justice Department on Friday reiterated its demand that a court break up the search giant.The request followed a landmark ruling last year by Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that found Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search by paying web browsers and smartphone manufacturers to feature its search engine. The judge is scheduled to hear arguments on proposed solutions from both the government and Google in April.Under the Biden administration last year,…

ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailAloke Singh, managing director of Air India Express, says India’s aviation industry is heavily leveraged to the country’s expansion and expects 14% to 15% growth in the sector if GDP grows as projected.03:41Wed, Feb 19 202512:22 AM EST

BEIJING: China’s military said Sunday (Mar 9) it would tighten its “noose” around Taiwan if separatism over the island escalated, warning proponents to step back from the “edge of the cliff” or face a “dead end”, state media reported. Beijing considers the democratically ruled island of Taiwan to be part of its territory and has not ruled out using military force to claim it. “The more rampant ‘Taiwan independence’ separatists become, the tighter the noose around their necks and the sharper the sword hanging over their heads will be,” military spokesman Wu Qian said, Xinhua news agency reported. “The PLA…